Over a six-year period, designer Carl Marchisotto has taken this
towering multidriver hybrid design from a romantic speaker of the "big
sound" school to, in its latest incarnation, a system capable, with
carefully selected affiliated equipment, of a stunningly high level of
realism. He has largely solved the discontinuity between its large
woofer towers and main speakers, and has freed the top octaves to
become capable of the airiness of the real thing. In retrospect, I'd
call the References a work of art in progress.